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Drawing

Mills in Appleton, Wisconsin-15,000 Lbs. Daily

Date: 1870
Description: Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat.
Photograph

Grignon Warehouse

Date: 1920
Description: The Grignon house was built (at the later address of 1313 Augustine Street) in 1836 by Charles Grignon. Charles Grignon was the son of Augustin Grignon, on...
Photograph

Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill

Date: 1948
Description: The Kimberly-Clark paper mill on the Fox River.
Photograph

Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of the Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill on the Fox River, just east of Appleton.
Photograph

Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill

Date: 07 1948
Description: The Kimberly-Clark paper mill on the Fox River, just east of Appleton.
Postcard

Little Chute Dam

Date: 1910
Description: View across water looking towards the dam. There is a stone wall to the right of the dam, and a building above it. Caption reads: "Section of Little Chute ...
Postcard

Fox River Lock

Date: 1910
Description: View looking down at the lock. Caption reads: "Fox River Near Little Chute, Wis."
Photograph

Fox River From Catholic Church Hill

Date: 06 1898
Description: The Fox River seen from the hill behind the Catholic Church and looking toward the combined locks. In the distance is a paper mill.
Photograph

Zeeland Mills

Date: 1865
Description: Zeeland Mills, built in 1862 by John Verstegen. The flour mill was 36' x 50', four stories and had "two runs of stone." It was still operating in 1911.
Photograph

Supports of Appleton Tri-County Bridge

Date: 06 30 1992
Description: View from below of the Fox River Bridge. Gordon Neitzke who photographed the Fox River Bridge for the Wisconsin Department of Highways, found an almost cat...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 4 Little Chute

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

Survey of the Neenah (or Fox) River: No. 5 Grand Chute

Date: 1840
Description: This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s...
Map or Atlas

City of Appleton Plat Map

Date: 
Description: Plat map of the east central part of the city.
Photograph

Aerial View of Residential Area

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Valley Fair Mall, with a residential area beyond it on both sides of a river, all surrounded by trees and farmland.
Photograph

Illegal Snag Line

Date: 1942
Description: Warden Kramer and his assistant in a boat removing an illegal snag line from the Wolf River.
Photograph

Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
Photograph

Paper Mill

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Exterior view of Riverside Paper Corporation mill. On the left is a road along a river, and on the right are railroad tracks along the mill. A sign in the ...
Photograph

Fox River Lock

Date: 08 03 1962
Description: Elevated view of the Guard Lock on the Fox River Canal, looking east from the Highway 55 bridge.
Photograph

Fox River Canal

Date: 08 04 1962
Description: A boat travels up the Fox River. In the background are a canal and locks and factory smokestacks.
Photograph

Consolidated Paper

Date: 
Description: Smoke billowing from smokestacks at the Consolidated Paper plant. The river appears to be partially frozen, and snow is on the ground. Piles of logs, on th...

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